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I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

Road Town Warrior Wish
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I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.

Chose Doctors Earthquake Fugitive
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The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

Against Always Blows Change
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Alternatives Behave Exhausted History
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

First History Morrow Peace
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Always Experience Leaders Mean
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Agree Believes Collectively Consensus
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Dialogue Distinction Prove Tasks
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Idea Share Good Beauty
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Given Hope Only Sake
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Away Bird Boredom Dream
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Character Destructive Feeling Life
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Mind Time Labour Original
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Given Law Little Much
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Aim Ambition Cannot Cured
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Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

Got Internet Look Started
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Better Dangerous Forget Idea
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

Bad Bomb Feel Make
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Comedy Deeply Doing Find
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I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

Driven High High School Loved
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The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

Animators Bad Bad Way Cash
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If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
Exists Great Great Thing Heaven
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Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.

Always Amazing Amazing People Because
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The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

Dread Early Essential Find
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Big Doing Filter Form
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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

Being Everyone Hates He
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Almost Great Love Self
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Any Believe Curiosity Delight
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Imagine Living Living Thing Only
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Afford He Life London
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Before Dared Darkness Deep
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Dream See Seem Within
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Write Reason Good Books
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Deserves Excitement Excites Need
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Dream Existence Fancy Future
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Because Chiefly Ever Expecting
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Afraid Brave Coward Either
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Anything Forget Make Note
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Able Been Dislike Has Been
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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Bartender Her Me Psychiatrist
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Always Analytic Fact Found
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

About Again Before Clear
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